Monday, October 29, 2012

Animated Kirby Machinery!

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I personally don't know Robert Bensam, but he made a comment on a recent post that I couldn't ignore. I rarely take requests, but I felt a gauntlet hit my foot.

It sounded really fun to animate some Kirby Tech! A lot of my blog work is sincere adoration to classic comics, and this is one of them. I started with a cropped splash page from Fantastic Four #64. I thought about removing the dialog, but it's so classic Stan Lee/Jack Kirby, it had to stay.

It makes you wish Disney would make a straight-up Kirby-inspired FF CG movie, doesn't it?

11 comments:

Bravo! I personally don't know Robert Samben either, but I'd like to shake that guy's hand for making such a good suggestion. Couldn't have made a better one myself!

I've always felt The Incredibles was as close to a Kirby CGI film as we're ever likely to see. Sure, the individual characters may be different, but that's almost irrelevant -- the overall mood and feeling of the film was closer to the original FF than anything Marvel/Disney/Fox would do onscreen with the actual team.